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Ruth chapter 1 in the days when the
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judges were governing a famine occurred
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in the country and a certain man from
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Bethlehem of Judah went he his wife and
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his two sons to live in the plains of
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Moab the man was called ALC his wife
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Naomi and his two sons Ma and chilion
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they were ites from Bethlehem of Judah
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going to The Plains of Moab they settled
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there ALC Naomi's husband died and she
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and her two sons were left these married
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moabit women one was called orpa and the
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other Ruth they lived there for about 10
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years M and chilion then both died too
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and Naomi was thus bereft of her two
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sons and her husband she then decided to
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come back from The Plains of Moab with
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daughters-in-law having heard in the
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plains of Moab that God had visited his
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people and given them food so with her
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daughters-in-law she left the place
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where she was living and they took the
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road back to Judah Naomi said to her two
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daughters-in-law go back each of you to
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your mother's house may Yahweh show you
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Faithful love as you have done to those
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who have died into me Yahweh grant that
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you may each find happiness with a
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husband she she then kissed them but
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they began weeping loudly and said no we
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shall go back with you to your people go
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home daughters Naomi replied why come
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with me have I any more sons in my womb
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to make husbands for you go home
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daughters go for I am now too old to
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marry again even if I said I still have
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a hope I shall take a husband this very
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night and shall bear more Sons would you
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be prepared to wait for them until they
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were grown up would you refuse to marry
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for their sake no daughters I am
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bitterly sorry for your sakes that the
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hand of Yahweh should have been raised
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against me they started weeping loudly
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all over again orpa then kissed her
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mother-in-law and went back to her
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people but Ruth stayed with her Naomi
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then said look your sister-in-law has
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gone back to her people and to her God
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go home too follow your sister-in-law
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but Ruth said do not press me to leave
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you and to stop going with you for
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wherever you go I shall go wherever you
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live I shall live your people will be my
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people and your God will be my God where
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you die I shall die and there I shall be
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buried let Yahweh bring unnamable ills
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on me and worse ills two if anything but
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death should part me from you seeing
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that Ruth was determined to go with her
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Naomi said no more the two of them went
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on until they came to Bethlehem their
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arrival set the whole town a stir and
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the women said can this be Naomi to this
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she replied do not call me Naomi call me
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Mara for Shai has made my lot bitter I
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departed full and Yahweh has brought me
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home empty why then call me Naomi since
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Yahweh has pronounced against me and
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Shai has made me wretched this was how
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Naomi came home with her daughter-in-law
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Ruth the moabitas on returning from The
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Plains of Moab they arrived in Bethlehem
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at the beginning of the barley
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Harvest Ruth chapter 2 Naomi had a
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Kinsman on her husband's side well too
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and of a lic's clan his name was Boaz
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Ruth the moabit said to Naomi let me go
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into the fields and glean ears of corn
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in the footsteps of some man who will
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look on me with favor she replied go
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daughter so she set out and went to
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glean in the fields behind the Reapers
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chance led her to a plot of land
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belonging to Boaz of Al lic's Clan Boaz
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as it happened had just come from
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Bethlehem Yahweh be with you he said to
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the Reapers Yahweh bless you they
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replied boas said said to a servant of
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his who was in charge of the Reapers to
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whom does this young woman belong and
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the servant in charge of the Reapers
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replied the girl is the moabitas the one
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who came back with Naomi from The Plains
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of Moab she said please let me glean and
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pick up what falls from the sheaves
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behind the Reapers thus she came and
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here she stayed with hardly arrest for
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mourning until now boas said to Ruth
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listen to me daughter you you must not
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go gleaning in any other field you must
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not go away from here stay close to my
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work women keep your eyes on whatever
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part of the field they are reaping and
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follow behind I have forbidden my men to
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molest you and if you are thirsty go to
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the pictures and drink what the servants
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have drawn Ruth fell on her face
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prostrated herself and said how have I
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attracted your favor for you to notice
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me who am only a four forer boas replied
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I've been told all about the way you
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have behaved to your mother-in-law since
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your husband's death and how you left
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your own father and mother and the land
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where you were born to come to a people
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of whom you previously knew nothing May
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Yahweh repay you for what you have done
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and may you be richly rewarded by Yahweh
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the god of Israel under whose wings you
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have come for Refuge she said my Lord I
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hope you will always look on me with
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favor you have comforted and encouraged
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Ed me though I am not even the equal of
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one of your work women when it was time
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to eat boas said to her come and eat
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some of this bread and dip your piece in
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the vinegar Ruth sat down beside the
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Reapers and boas made a heap of roasted
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grain for her she ate till her hunger
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was satisfied and she had some left over
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when she had got up to glean boas gave
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orders to his work people let her glean
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among the sheaves themselves do not
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molest her and be sure you pull a few
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ears of corn out of the bundles and drop
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them let her glean them and do not scold
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her so she gleaned in the field till
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evening then she beat out what she had
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gleaned and it came to about a bushel of
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barley taking it with her she went back
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to the town her mother-in-law saw what
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she had gleaned Ruth also took out what
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she had kept after eating all she wanted
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and gave that to her her mother-in-law
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said Where Have You Been gleaning today
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where have you been working blessed be
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the man who took notice of you Ruth told
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her mother-in-law in whose field she had
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been working the name of the man with
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whom I have been working today she said
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is Boaz Naomi said to her
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daughter-in-law may he be blessed by
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Yahweh who does not withhold his
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faithful love from living or dead this
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man Naomi added is a close relation of
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ours he is one of those who have the
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right of redemption over us Ruth the
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mother-in-law he also said stay with my
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work people until they have finished my
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whole Harvest Naomi said to Ruth her
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daughter-in-law it is better for you
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daughter to go with his work women than
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to go to some other field where you
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might be ill treated so she stayed with
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boaz's work women and gleaned until the
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barley and wheat harvests were finished
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and she went on living with her mother
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in-law Ruth chapter 3 her mother-in-law
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Naomi then said daughter is it not my
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duty to see you happily settled and boas
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the man with whose work women you were
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is he not our Kinsman tonight he will be
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winnowing the barley on the threshing
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floor so wash and perfume yourself put
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on your cloak and go down to the thresh
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Fring floor don't let him recognize you
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while he is still eating and drinking
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but when he lies down take note where he
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lies then go and turn back the covering
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at his feet and lie down yourself he
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will tell you what to do Ruth said I
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shall do everything you tell me so she
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went down to the threshing floor and did
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everything her mother-in-law had told
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her when boas had finished eating and
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drinking he went off happily and laid
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down beside the pile of bar Harley Ruth
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then quietly went turned back the
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covering at his feet and lay down in the
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middle of the night he woke up with a
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shock and looked about him and there
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lying at his feet was a woman who are
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you he said and she replied I am your
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servant Ruth spread the skirt of your
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cloak over your servant for you have the
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right of redemption over me May yeh
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bless you daughter he said for this
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second act of faithful love of yours is
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greater than the first since you have
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not run after young men poor or rich
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don't be afraid daughter I shall do
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everything you ask since the people of
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the Gate of my town all know that you
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are a woman of great worth but though it
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is true that I have the right of
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redemption over you you have a Kinsman
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closer than myself stay here for tonight
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and in the morning if he wishes to
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exercise his right over you very well
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let him redeem you but if he does not
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then as Yahweh lives I shall redeem you
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lie here till morning so she lay at his
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feet till morning but got up before the
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hour when one man can recognize another
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and he thought it must not be known that
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this woman came to the threshing floor
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he then said let me have the cloak you
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are wearing hold it out she held it out
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while he put six measures of barley into
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it and then loaded it onto her and off
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she went to the town when Ruth got home
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her Mother-in-law asked her how did
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things go with you daughter she then
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told her everything that the man had
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done for her he gave me these six
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measures of barley and said you must not
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go home empty-handed to your
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mother-in-law Naomi said do nothing
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daughter until you see how things have
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gone I am sure he will not rest until he
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has settled the matter this very day
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Ruth chapter 4 Boaz meanwhile had gone
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up to the gate and sat down and the
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relative of whom he had spoken then came
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by boas said to him here my friend come
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and sit down the man came and sat down
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boas then picked out 10 of the town's
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elders and said sit down here they sat
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down boas then said to the man who had
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the right of redemption Naomi who has
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come back from The Plains of Moab is
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selling the piece of land that belonged
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to our brother ALC I thought I should
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tell you about this and say acquire it
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in the presence of the men who are
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sitting here and in the presence of the
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Elders of my people if you want to use
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your right of redemption redeem it if
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you do not tell me so that I know for I
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am the only person to redeem it besides
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yourself and I myself come after you
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boas then said the day you acquire the
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field from Naomi you also acquire Ruth
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the moabitas the wife of the man who has
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died to perpetuate the dead man's name
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in his inheritance the man with the
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right of redemption then said I cannot
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use my right of redemption without
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jeopardizing my own inheritance since I
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cannot use my right of redemption
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exercise the right yourself now in
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former times it was the custom in Israel
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to confirm a transaction in matters of
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redemption or inheritance by one of the
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parties taking off his sandal and giving
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it to the together this was how
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agreements were ratified in Israel so
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when the man with the right of
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redemption said to boas acquire it for
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yourself he took off his sandal boas
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then said to the elders and all the
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people there today you are witnesses
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that from Naomi I acquire everything
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that used to belong to IMC and
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everything that used to belong to M and
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chilion and that I am also acquiring
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Ruth the moabitas men's Widow to be my
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wife to perpetuate the dead man's name
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in his inheritance so that the dead
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man's name will not be lost among his
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brothers and at the Gate of his town
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today you are witnesses to this all the
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people of the gates said we Are
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Witnesses and the elders said May Yahweh
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make the woman about to enter your
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family like Rachel and Leah who together
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built up the house of Israel grow Mighty
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in EPA be renowned in Bethlehem and
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through the children Yahweh will give
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you by this young woman may your family
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be like the family of Perez whom Tamar
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bore to Judah so boas took Ruth and she
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became his wife and when they came
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together Yahweh made her conceive and
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she bore a son and the women said to
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Naomi Blessed Be Yahweh who has not left
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you today without anyone to redeem you
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may his name be praised in Israel the
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child will be a comfort to you and the
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prop of your old age for he has been
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born to the daughter-in-law who loves
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you and is more to you than seven sons
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and Naomi taking the child held him to
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her breast and she it was who looked
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after him and the women of the
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neighborhood gave him a name a son they
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said has been born to Naomi and they
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called him oid this was the father of
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Jesse the father of David these are the
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descendants of Perez Perez fathered
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hezin hezin fathered ram ram fathered
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Ammon adab Ammon adab fathered nashan
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nashan salmon sammon fathered Boaz Boaz
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fathered OED OED father Jesse and Jesse
